house-plants

Cogon recently infiltrated the U.S. in the packaging of imported Asian house-plants and is now advancing through the southern states.

Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds Richard Mabey 2011

A brown-and-black hound dozed in a sunbeam on the porch amid a green array of house-plants.

Magnolia Moon JoAnn Ross 2003

Secretaries with house-plants were a threatening breed, thought Hamish.

Death of a Charming Man Beaton, M. C. 1994

Secretaries with house-plants were a threatening breed, thought Hamish.

Death of a Charming Man Beaton, M. C. 1994

Our young women are sickly house-plants, that a chill wind will shake or an untimely frost nip and wither.

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

They have been shut up in tight rooms, bound up in bandages, fed on sweetmeats and spices, doctored with poisons, dressed in whalebones and death-cords, petted like house-plants, steeped in tea and coffee, till they are nothing but bundles of shattered nerves and diseased muscles.

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

Probably the most important matter to be observed in growing house-plants is that of watering them.

Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan

But most all kinds of house-plants will do fairly in a uniform temperature, from 70° by day to 55° by night.

Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan

The little green insects so frequently seen on house-plants, are called aphis (plural aphides), plant-lice, or green-fly.

Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan

This section is more difficult to manage as house-plants than the common geranium, needing more direct light to keep it stocky, and being troubled by insects.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906